Author: Whipple, Henry Benjamin
Title: Lights And Shadows Of A Long Episcopate, Being Reminiscences And Recollections Of The Right Reverend Henry Benjamin Whipple, Bishop Of Minnesota
Description: Macmillan, 1900, 2nd impression. Cloth, VG. vi+576pp+2pp publishers adverts, photogravure frontis, 10 b/w plates, 4 b/w illustrations, 17pp of facsimiles of which 6 are folding, index, top edge gilt, cloth bright with just a little rubbing to the edges, tear to pp140, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A biography of Henry Benjamin Whipple [ 1822 - 1901 ] the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, who is best remembered for his dedication to the welfare of the American Indians and for his missionary work among the Dakota and Ojibwe, and the book carries much information on this missionary work.

Keywords: biography, travel, minnesota, dakota, american indians, christianity, missionaries, missionary work, american west, Ojibwe, sioux